We set out this morning in search of good characters.  We ended up at one of the best spots in the city to find them–the beautiful and historic Trinity College Campus.

Writers split into groups of three, found a “mark,” and tracked their characters.  They recorded appearance, conversations, gestures, quirks, and facial expressions.  They took inconspicuous photos of these characters while pretending to pose for their own saccharine selfies.  They mined the campus for the raw data to create the most exciting, most conflicted, most suspenseful, and most sweet characters this side of poetry and prose.

After an hour or so of collecting raw material from the quads, the sports fields, and the pedestrian pathways of Trinity, writers sat down as a group to flesh out some people that could people their writing.  Results, we’d say, were characteristically fabulous.

Here’s the crew at work: